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Updated 6 days, 14 hours ago

FBI arrests Energy Department employee on charge of trying to support Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to …

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Trump campaign lawsuit over Pennsylvania vote heads to court

A hearing on the Trump campaign's federal lawsuit seeking to prevent Pennsylvania officials from certifying the vote results remains on track for Tuesday after a judge quickly denied the campaign's new lawyer's req…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
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Oregon: Amend Campaign Finance (Allow reform laws)

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
24 hours in the ICU: Fighting for an open bed in coronavirus

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Four more calls to go, each with careful words, painful silences.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EST

Governors ratchet up restrictions ahead of Thanksgiving

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Hurricane Iota roars onto Nicaragua as 2nd blow in 2 weeks

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — In a one-two punch, Hurricane Iota roared ashore as a dangerous Category 4 storm along almost exactly the same stretch of Nicaragua's Caribbean coast that was devastated by an equally powe…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Georgia elections chief fights fellow Republicans, Trump

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's secretary of state is a man on an island, and the political flood is rising fast, as President Donald Trump and his allies vent their outrage at the fellow Republican over unsupported claim…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Head of govt agency under pressure to let transition proceed

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of an obscure federal agency that is holding up the presidential transition knew well before Election Day that she might soon have a messy situation on her hands.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
California businesses brace for new virus restrictions

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California gym owner D'Lee Daleo has spent months following ever-changing rules to keep her struggling business afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, so the prospect of tighter state reg…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Public health programs see surge in students amid pandemic

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — As the novel coronavirus emerged in the news in January, Sarah Keeley was working as a medical scribe and considering what to do with her biology degree.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Thai lawmakers debate demands for constitutional changes

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s political battleground shifted Tuesday from the streets to the country’s Parliament, where lawmakers are considering proposals to amend the constitution, one of the core demands of the nat…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Lottery State-by-State

The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Monday:

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Lottery State-by-State-All

The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Monday:

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Dangerous Hurricane Iota makes landfall on Nicaragua coast

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Powerful Hurricane Iota made landfall on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast late Monday, threatening catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America already battered by equally strong Hur…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EST

Governors ratchet up restrictions ahead of Thanksgiving

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Georgia official says Graham asked him about tossing ballots

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham asked him whether he had the power to reject certain absentee ballots, a question he interpreted as a suggestio…